In baseball there are generalists, who keep their eye on the ball and see the big picture; football is full of special-duty charac...ters who are very limited in terms of their range but have depth. Baseball represents America before the frontier ended, when there was plenty of space and plenty of time, and philosophic anarchists roamed around on verdant fields "doing their thing" with a free and reckless abandon. The game is relaxing and not particularly taxing on the players, who play many times each week. Football is tremendously difficult on the players and is so tiring that sixty minutes of clock time--which amounts to several hours of real time--exhausts them. Baseball developed when we thought nature was a limitless reservoir and we would always live in abundance. Football reflects a different world view; everything has to be fought for, resources are precious, hostile people (guards, monster men) are everywhere and in such a world you have to grab what you can.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The limitless future of childhood shrinks to realistic proportions, to one of limited chances and goals; but, by the same token, t...he mastery of time and space and the conquest of helplessness afford a hitherto unknown promise of self- realization. This is the human condition of adolescence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The universe is then one, infinite, immobile.... It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to... that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobile.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an almost chaoti...cally limitless and therefore unmanageable realm in the life of women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live; science, everything that sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the mo...st disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life. Born of the sensibility, it sows and creates it in its turn. It is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life. Science, or to use a broader term, knowledge, has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species. Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility. To know, and to know still more--the instinct for knowledge is insatiable, because the subject of knowledge is limitless.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than ...most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country, its prosperity and limitless bounty. They have shops the way that lesser countries have statues.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corres...ponds; the magnetic rays, emanating either from myself or from others, cross the limitless chain of created things unimpeded; it is a transparent network that covers the world, and its slender threads communicate themselves by degrees to the planets and stars. Captive now upon earth, I commune with the chorus of the stars who share in my joys and sorrows.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »